March 2009

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Design Review 2010 Released and Supporting PDF’s

By Donnie Gladfelter on March 30, 2009

As you might expect, the new release of AutoCAD has brought with it a new release of Design Review. It’s been a free download for a few years now, and until this year it’s interface had remained largely the same. Perhaps the most noticeable feature of Design Review 2010 is the ribbon. Personally, I [...]

Posted in DWF | Tagged Design Review, DWF, PDF | 2 Responses

CAD Geek Poll – What are your 2010 upgrade plans?

By Donnie Gladfelter on March 25, 2009

AutoCAD 2010 (and most other 2010 products) were launched this week, and the question begins to shift from “what’s new” to “will I upgrade”. Judging from the last poll I ran here on The CAD Geek, it seems the vast majority of you (45%) are running the latest release (2009), but what does the future [...]

Posted in AutoCAD 2010 | Tagged AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2010, Poll | 6 Responses

AutoCAD 2010 and new Exchange Site Launched

By Donnie Gladfelter on March 24, 2009

Great news! You know all those cool new features like parametric constraints, the contextual ribbon, dynamic block enhancements, etc that myself and every other blogger in the blogosphere have been raving about for months now? Until today those posts were pretty much “come and see the cool features you could be saving time with (if [...]

Posted in AutoCAD 2010 | Tagged AutoCAD 2010, AutoCAD Exchange, Community, Release | 2 Responses

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 Gets Ribbonized

By Donnie Gladfelter on March 20, 2009

Ever since Microsoft launched Office 2007 the trend has undoubtedly shifted from the traditional interface employing menus and toolbars, to the “new and improved” ribbon. Users of vanilla AutoCAD got ribbonized with last year’s 2009 release. While a classic workspace was still shipped with the product, the ribbon was an integral part of the default [...]

Posted in Civil 3D 2010 | Tagged Civil 3D, Civil 3D 2010, New Features, Ribbon | 13 Responses

Acquiring, Converting, and Using DEM Downloads in Civil 3D

By Donnie Gladfelter on March 11, 2009

While importing surface data from Google Earth is probably the easiest way to get some conceptual topographical data into your drawings, DEM’s have to be a close second. For the uninitiated, DEM’s or Digital Elevation Models could be described as a surface whose data is organized in a grid. This is fundamentally different than DTM’s [...]

Posted in Civil 3D 2008, Civil 3D 2009 | Tagged Coordinate System, DEM, sdts2dem | 6 Responses